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Crurifarcimen
''Crurifarcimen'' is a monotypic genus of millipedes containing the single species ''Crurifarcimen vagans''. Its common name is wandering leg sausage.〔(Top 10 New Species - 2012: ''Crurifarcimen vagans''. ) International Institute for Species Exploration. Arizona State University.〕 This millipede is endemic to Tanzania, where it is known only from the Usambara Mountains. It was formally described in 2011 and placed in a newly erected genus of its own.〔 It was declared one of the world's top 10 new species of 2012 by Arizona State University's International Institute for Species Exploration.〔
==Description==
This millipede is made up of usually 56 (sometimes 54 to 57) ringlike abdominal segments, each with two pairs of legs, for a total of usually 112 legs. The largest specimens are about long. They are approximately wide. The body is light brown, sometimes darker, and the head, legs, and other parts are brownish yellow. The body segments are smooth, and the male tends to have a shinier body surface than the female.〔
The millipede lives in rotting wood in mountain forest habitat. The female builds a capsule-like nest roughly wide out of earth. Little else is known about the ecology of this species or others of its tribe.〔
Though it has been reported to be the world's largest millipede,〔(Top 10 New Species discovered. ) Environment Australia. June 9, 2012.〕 this is erroneous, because the giant African millipede (''Archispirostreptus gigas'') can grow much larger, over .〔Carwardine, M. ''Animal Records''. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 2008. pg. 218.〕 It is, though, the largest millipede known from the Eastern Arc Range, a biodiversity hotspot which includes Tanzania's Usambara Mountains.〔〔Leggett, M. (Ten of the best - amazing new species list for 2012. ) Earthtimes.org. May 24, 2012.〕
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